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AI companies are violating a basic social contract of the web and and ignoring robots.txt (www.theverge.com)
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[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 57 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

robots.txt is a file available in a standard location on web servers (example.com/robots.txt) which set guidelines for how scrapers should behave.

That can range from saying "don't bother indexing the login page" to "Googlebot go away".

IT's also in the first paragraph of the article.